STRESS & INTELLECT - ( HOW TO HANDLE STRESS )
For the stress, here is the rub.
No body can make you stress/unhappy unless you
agree to it.No matter what others do to you. How you react to an experience
determines whether you will be stressed or happy.
It is your mind that wrecks havoc on your peace,
cause frustruation and destroys happiness-not the external world.
It is a mistake to believe that he or she or this
or that circumstances or outside world make you stress.
You are the architect of your own happiness. You
are the architect of your own unhappiness.
One fact we know about ourself is one day we die.
The death of body is inevitable. But we celebrate our birthday, birthdays of
our near and dear ones, family etc. We dont care about the future anxiety-the
death. We celebrate as we have no death. We are not stressed .We conduct huge
party/celebrations for our birthdays. Same way we should handle stress as if
there is no stress.
How to handle stress? : If you ask any one across
the world,the most likely answer is =control the mind. But how to control the
mind? Mind is in constant experience--how can you control it? Mind is
programmed to wander.Just like water in a river. It keeps on flowing one
direction to the another. That is life.
What is this constant experience of the mind? :
You are the subject and world is an object. So we are in contact with the
world; so there is subject object relationship and there is an experience.
Outside world cannot tire you. But we dont know how to make use of it. It is
like having excellent food ,but no appetite.
Why should we not conrtol the mind? : Controlling
the mind means conmtrolling the contact with outside world. We must continue
contacting the world.Action is insignia of life while in action is death. You
have to act.
So the question is really how do you act? The
body performs the action. When i am writing this article , it is an action.When
you are reading this blog, you are performing an action.
But all that said, my body cannot come here and
write this by itself. There is something other than the body that propels it,
and compels it to act. What is it? - Intellect
What is Intellect? : You are not taught this in
school and universities. You were not taught this by your parents when you were
a child. We are all left high and dry in the world with out knowing that which
enables us to act in the world. It is like being blind folded , so learn this
today.
You have two equipemets and one is the mind and
one is the intellect. The mind consists of emotions, feelings ,likes and
dislikes since childhood. The intellect on the other hand is for reasoning. You
have just never bothered to deal with it.
In astrological perspective also, to check one's
mental and psychological strength , it is imperative to understand ones
position of moon and mercury in his natal birth chart. Moon represents Mind
while Mercury represents Intellect. No where in astrological text it mentioned
to check position of Jupiter for mental and psychological strength. Jupiter
represents Knowledge. But why it is not considered. Knowledge will not help you
in distress. Intellect will help when you face a distress.It will like an SOS
help.
Difference between Intellect and Intelligence :
What you all know is Intelligence.
Intelligence is knowledge.
You gain intelligence from external agencies like
teachers, text books, from schools, universities. That knowledge and
information provide you with intelligence. No amount of intelligence can make
upwith intellect. It is impossible. They are two different wavelengths.
You need an intellect to help you handle the
faculties of the mind, for it is mind that troubles you and destroys your
peace. It is nothing else.
The real value of intelligence is to help you
make a living.
You might go to university to gain the knowledge,
so that you can make a living.
Millons of doctors have passed through medical
school, but one guy found out how to transplant a living heart; one guy found
the cure for tuberculosis. How about that ? Those men had intellect besides
intelligence.
With the intellect you have to fix an ideal. And
an ideal requires working beyond yourself. You can work for your family or for
the community, or for the country or even for all living creatures.
The higher the ideal, the greater the initiative
to work. The problem is that people dont have ideals or a higher focus and
there is no initiative for them to come to work. They work instead through
incentives.
If you donot find rest in action, you will never
find rest by getting away from action.
You also need intellect for 3Cs viz
1) Concentration
2) Consistency
3) Cooperation
What is concentration? You will reply focus? So
what is focus? No body knows what concentration is. They go about in circles.
It just became Herd instinct.
Concentration : Human mind has the tendency to
slip in to the worries of the past or the anxities for the future. Every body's
mind including mine. Concentration is keeping the mind on the present job and
not allowing it to slip. This can be achieved through intellect.
Consistency :If you don't have consistency you will fail. If Virat Kohli plays cricket
for one month, baseball for a second month, and football for a third month, you
can probably beat him! You have to be consistent with what you are doing-all
your actions must flow in one direction. Only the intellect can keep you on the
direction you have set.
Coperation: If you dont have intellect you will
have superiority or inferiority complex. We are all spokes in the wheel of life
and no body is important and no body is unimportant.Who is important? A person
who supplies drinking water to your house or the person who sits in the White
House? For a week or more you can probably do with out the person who sits in
the white house, but not the person who supplies drinking water to your house.
You need intellect to understand that we are all spokes in the wheel of life.
Faculies of the mind and how to handle it ?
Mind has a tendency of likes and dislikes. One
likes cocktail drinks while another guy likes only water. When Pure vegetarian
Indians reach United states, they need rice and dal , but foreigners preferably
like non vegetarian dishes.
A man goes to court to divorce his wife and he
finds great pleasure in getting rid of her, another guy is desperately waiting
to marry the same lady. This happens everywhere including in Love. The lady
provides joy to one,sorrow to another.
It is not in the object or in the being-it is how
you relate to it
Your liking is not permanent : What is pleasant
to you in the begining is not so in the end. Junk food is pleasant in the
beginning but not so much in the end. You donot like exercise and you avoid it,
but it becomes a problem later. What you like is detrimental , what you dont
like is benefitial. This is not to say that you should not do what you like-I
am only asking that you examine whether it is proper.
Mind has a tendency to ramble: It rambles in to
worries of the past and anxities for the future. That tires you. Action doesnot
tires you.Action can never tire you.
If stress is conituing for very long period,it
might lead to Anxiety disorder. Most
people suffering anxiety disorder may get panic attacks. Very goods Medicines
are there in psychiatry. But most of the problems of mind can be solved when
mind itself is not cared by you. You just boost your Intellect. It will heal
your mind. Never try to control your mind directly. It is antidose treatment.In
astrology also when one planet is giving problems,. we find out counteracting
planet which will balance the doshas of the conflicting planet.
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